Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
HIPPOCRATESPrayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Many admire, few know.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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